Looking for a teacher in Beijing this summer / 六月和七月在北京我想一位老师

I'm (probably) doing a Chinese language program in Beijing this summer, and I'd like to continue my shakuhachi lessons while I'm there. I'm a beginner. I am also a beginner at Chinese, so I would prefer to find a teacher who could speak English, but I would be ok with a very patient teacher who speaks only Mandarin. Actually I am not supposed to speak English during the summer program, but I think with my level of Chinese, studying shakuhachi without speaking English with my teacher would be very hard.

Re: Looking for a teacher in Beijing this summer / 六月和七月在北京我想一位老师

Xevarion, Why wait until this summer? Riley Lee is teaching a non-shakuhachi course at Princeton as we speak. Maybe you can get some lessons from him. You'd be hard pressed to find as good a teacher anywhere. His native language is English and Riley is the bomb. Jim

Re: Looking for a teacher in Beijing this summer / 六月和七月在北京我想一位老师

I'm in that course. The course is about the history amd cultural context of the shakuhachi, and learning to play the shakuhachi is actually part of the class. I'm just trying to make plans for after the course ends.

Perhaps I should take your suggestion and see if I can have any extra lessons with him, though.